Glitches

Work around for experience point bug in Suikoden I

There is a bug in Suikoden I: Characters in each row (front and back) recieve (at most) the experience received by the left-most character in that row. This will cause lower level characters to receive very little experience if placed to the right of higher levelled characters.

To work around this bug place your lowest level characters to the left of higher level characters in each row. Each row is handled independently so you can order them Low to High in the front row and then Low to High in the back row without either row interfering with the other.

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Glitches

Full Items

Game Over / Stat Items trick

This trick is very simple and allows you to use your stat increasing items as many times as you want. First save your game and use all the stat items you have on whatever character you're trying to improve. Now get into a random battle and let your party be wiped out. At the game over screen choose to continue. Your game will be loaded up from your last save yet you'll still have all the items you used and your stats will remain upgraded, leaving you free to repeat this as many times as you feel necessary.

Easter Eggs

Old Book Vol.9

Once you've collected all 8 Old Books, go to the library and highlight Volume 8, press all four buttons (X, O, Triangle, Square) at once and a secret 9th book will appear: Hirotakas Development Diary.
This only works on Japanese versions as it has been removed from the English releases.

Secrets

Hidden Items

After the audience with the Emperor, don't go home. Instead, go to Sarady and talk to the man in the upper-right house. You'll get a Fortune Rune. Alternately, go home and as soon as Ted joins the party, go to Sarady and talk to the man in the upper-right house. You'll get a Prosperity Rune.

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Glitches

Armor Swapping Glitch

Each character can wear different types of armor, and some can not wear some types of armor. However, there is a trick to get around this. Just exchange equipment directly from the individual character's inventory! It is easy! However, the person who is giving the unequipable armor to another has to be able to equip the armor that the other person is wearing. For example, if Humphrey is wearing Knight Armor, and Luc has a tunic on, you could do this because Humphrey could wear tunics, however, if Luc is wearing Magic Robes, this will not work. Also, if a character is wearing non-removable armor/accessories this won't work, and characters that can not use shields can not have shields swapped.

Easy Luca Blight Defeat

The fight against Luca Blight is a difficult battle. He can easily level your entire party if you don't come prepared. With this glitch, it will be impossible for him to defeat you. Here's a rundown on what to do.
1: Before heading into the war room and moving out, make a party of 6.
2: With the party of six, make sure you put Riou in the 4th (bottom-left) slot.
3: Head into the war room.
4: When assembling your parties, Riou will appear to be in the first slot.
5: DO NOT put anyone else in Riou's party.
6: Go fight Luca.
7: When you're at Riou's part, Luca will not attack at all. Pick at him with Riou for the easy win.
For the first two fights, you don't have to win them. If Luca beats your first party, he will move on to the second. When he beats the second, he'll move on to the third. The third fight is the battle you have to win. But, with this glitch, it'll be impossible for Luca to win that third battle, gaining you an easy win over the toughest battle in the game.

Easy Stat Ups for Characters

To take part in this in-game cheat, you must have at least one of the Stones (i.e. Stone of Power, Stone of Defense, etc.). Having multiple stones speeds up the process of gaining stats.

NOTE: Make sure to SAVE your game FIRST before you try this!

Use the stones on any character, then enter a battle and lose. (Tip: Unequipping all armor before the battle makes it faster to lose.) At the game over screen, don't give up. It will reload you to your last save. You will retain all of the items you previously had before your character died (i.e. the stones). You will also retain the stats that you gained from the stones.

Maximum Potch

You must have already recruited the armor shop owner to your armies cause for this trick to work. Once this has been done, go to his shop. This glitch involves some simple calculations, use the following example as a guide to see how it is done. Equip one character with Dragon Armor (23,000 potch), and make sure that at least two other characters have no armor equipped, but can wear Dragon Armor. You should also have 23,000 to 30,000 potch. Talk to the armorer, go to buy, then choose to purchase Dragon Armor. When prompted to place it in the bag or to equip it, choose to equip it on the character already wearing Dragon Armor. When prompted to sell the old armor or put it in the bag, cancel the action. You should still be in buying mode for the armor. Simply purchase and equip the two armorless characters Dragon Armor. The potch meter will reset to somewhere around 999,999.

Secrets

Color Intro

When you are preparing to jump into the river in the beginning, Rowd will have a group of soldiers attack you. When he runs off answer Jowy so that you won't jump off, Rowd will return with more soldiers. Do this 108 times for a color intro and to level up your characters as well.

Extra Boots

Before jumping off the cliff at the start of the game unequip the boots on Riou and equip them on Jowy. When Pohl asks you to get two pairs of boots take three from Barbara. Equip two pairs of boots on Riou and talk to Barbara again, she will allow you to take three more pairs of boots resulting in four free pairs.

Extra Flowing and Mother Earth Runes

Speak with the Rune Master at Gregminster and buy all runes that appear in Rare Finds. If there are no rare finds, then just select 'Quit'. Observe the cabinet behind the Rune Master and then speak with him again. There is a 60 to 70 percent chance that the Rare Finds will open up. Try this once during every trip to Gregminster.

Hidden Room in Radat

When Viki teleports the hero from the headquarters to anywhere in the game, she sometimes mistakenly teleports you and says, "huh?". If you're lucky, you get teleported to the secret room in Radat, where there are some neat items.

New save icon

First, acquire the five squirrels by walking along the routes surrounding Greenhill alone, or with other squirrels. After obtaining all five (which can be time consuming), check your memory card icon on your playstation. There should be a new icon, and you also get another scene at the end of the game for acquiring all five squirrels.

Play as McDohl

First, you must have save data from Suikoden loaded into the Suikoden 2 file. Then, after you beat Luca Blight, go to Banner Village. Talk to the hero lookalike, and he will tell you McDohl is here. Go east of the inn to see Gremio or Ellie blocking the way. Go talk to the lookalike again, and he will divert attention. Talk to McDohl, and Gremio/Ellie will eventually tell you Ko, the lookalike, is gone. You, McDohl, and Gremio/Ellie go off to find Ko in the path to Gregminster. At the end, you will be face to face with Lepant, who offers McDohl the presidency. He and Gremio eventually go to their house in Gregminster, where he can be recruited at any future time.